I just bought the new release from the Alexandra Lehmler Quintett named "No Blah Blah". It's already their third album. Great, complex compositions but playful and sunny. Alexandra's sax sounds clear and transparent. Bruno Böhmer's piano adds sparkling and vivid sections. Here's a live version of the first track of the album "Feeling Round". I like the album version better but it's still worth a look: ...more...
Alexandra Lehmler Quintett - ALQ - Feeling Round
Live in Berlin
I Like Bein' a Catholic!: Jesus and God: A Catholic Perspective
In this book of meditations, based on a series of homilies and meditations presented and compiled by the author shortly before he became Archbishop of Munich-Freising, in 1977, theologian Joseph Ratzi...
http://justin-stroh.blogspot.com/2012/02/jesus-and-god-catholic-perspective.html
Michel Portal's album Bailador was my favourite jazz album in 2011. It is much more accessible than his older stuff and radiates vibrancy and great beauty. The live version of the track Citrus Juice differs in its atmosphere from the album version but has another kind of greatness to it.
Michel Portal - CITRUS JUICE (MEZZO HD 2011)
MICHEL PORTAL : SAXOPHONES
AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE: TRUMPET
BOJAN Z : PIANO, KEYBOARDS
LIONEL LOUEKE : GUITAR
SCOTT COLLEY : DOUBLE BASS
Nasheet Waits : DRUMS
02.06.2011
India may be the world’s fastest-growing economy after China, but its primary education standards in the countryside rank alongside Papua New Guinea and crisis-torn Afghanistan and Yemen, according to some of the country’s leading development economists.
India’s schools fail to keep pace with growth - FT.com
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Economic conditions and social media are making protests more common in China—at a delicate time for the country’s rulers. Even if the country does not appear on the brink of an Arab-style upheaval, many Chinese academics say the next few years could see burgeoning instability http://econ.st/ynBbsc
A dangerous year
IN AN industrial zone near Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in south-west China, a sign colourfully proclaims the sprawl of factories to be a “delightful, harmonious and h...
http://econ.st/ynBbsc
- Was Adolf Hitler a Christian? -- TrueOrigin Archive
Jerry Bergman, PhD, examines the claim that Adolf Hitler was a Christian.
http://www.trueorigin.org/hitler01.asp
again facilitation class - panel discussion about night life in freising: student "there is no nightlife in freising" facilitator "why don't you get some friends?"
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